When data breaches went from being an occasional threat to a persistent fact of life during the early 2010s, one question would come up again and again as victim organizations, cybersecurity ...

Some of the projects that use MD5 as the default method for storing user passwords include WordPress, osCommerce, SuiteCRM, miniBB, SugarCRM, CMS Made Simple, MantisBT, Phorum, Observium, and X3cms.

Facepalm: A couple of years ago, Kaspersky Lab tested the resilience of hashed passwords against a modern gaming GPU. Now, the Moscow-based security firm has updated its study and found that things ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

After so many high-profile data breaches, it’s time developers learned that storing passwords is a really bad idea. And there is a perfectly workable alternative. Last week, I went to a project ...

If you've ever watched TV and movies about cybersecurity, you probably envision someone sitting in a dark room trying to guess someone else's password based on a few facts like their kids' names or ...

Almost weekly now I hear from an indignant reader who suspects a data breach at a Web site they frequent that has just asked the reader to reset their password. Further investigation almost invariably ...

Slack notified roughly 0.5% of its users that it reset their passwords after fixing a bug exposing salted password hashes when creating or revoking shared invitation links for workspaces. "When a user ...

Learn more about hash functions, including how they protect data integrity and secure blockchain transactions in ...